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On Wed, 2004-03-10 at 21:16, Scott Minster wrote:
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Jim Woodruff wrote:
> My computer is accessed by the entire family and my kids friends.
> Is there a way to password gnucash or its data files? I've searched
> the help files and man pages without success.
The easiest way to do this is to make a separate 'gnucash' account that
owns your data file. Set the permissions on the data file to be 600 or
something like that so that the gnucash user can read and write, but
other users cannot read or write. Then, when you want to access your
data, you first 'su' to the gnucash user (and enter the password) before
you run gnucash. You can also do this as a single command:
su - gnucash -c /usr/bin/gnucash
Just make sure not to leave GnuCash running!</I></FONT></PRE>
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In general, it's not a good idea to run any application software as root. A better way is to set up a separate user account, call it Accounts or something like that, with it's own unique password. Then you can run gnucash as a user. However, you should be able to set up file permissions to restrict access also. That's why I asked what OS he is running.<BR>
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Don Henson<BR>
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